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310 pages. The shocking devastating truth about the Medical Monster and the cancer racket. Proof that radiation, surgery, and chemo-therapy is real quackery. Then read the real cancer cures being supressed by the Medical Monster. Originally published in 1956. Includes dozens of graphic black and white photos of cancer victims plus rare black and white photographs of the infamous George H. 'Doc' Simmons, founder of the American Medical Association (A.M.A.)., and his successor Morris Fishbein. Documents an important part of American medical history. Small piece of clear tape at foot of spine. Shows evidence of ample but respectful use. Rubbing to illustrated covers. Book
116 pages. Features: Will Cuba Be Rescued?; In Two Years - From Revolution to Ruin (Castro's Dictatorship); If Kennedy Has His Way on Taxes; As American Soldiers Moved Up Front in Laos; Back of the Delay in U.S. Missile Bases; Mystery of Soviet Spaceman - Truth or Hoax?; A "Doomsday Machine" - Last Word in the Arms Race?; Who Elected Kennedy - Here's a New Analysis; How Kennedy Differs from Ike: Study of Presidents at Work; Red Menace..Lag in Space - the President's Size-Up; Kennedy: "We Do Not Intend to Abandon Cuba"; After 10 Months, Is U.N. Getting Anywhere in the Congo?; How Canada Handles Aid to Parochial Schools; What Khrushchev Told an American Writer; Tax Credit to Help Business - As Kennedy Spells it out. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
64 pages. Features: Prospecting in the Cherokee Hills; The Hoax of Prunes, the Burro - Fairplay, Colorado; Mama's gone to sit on a jury - Mrs. Eliza Boyd was the first woman to be summoned for jury duty; Santa Anna's Pay Chest; When House Calls were House Calls - wilderness doctor goes 85 miles by dog team!; Early-Day 'Town Houses' - early New Mexico architecture; The Ashes of Los Burros - mining district in California; Death dresed up like hired help - Minot, North Dakota; One More Mystery for the Superstition Mountains of Arizona; Old Friends from Perote, the infamous Mexican prison; Lost Breck Hofus Gold Mine; Man with the Diamond Willow Cane - South Dakota cowboy 'class of 1902' - Frank Glover; Wild Old Days!. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Book
Includes the following stories: A Chase in the Clouds; Some Historic Curses - II; The Totem Pearl; On the Frontier in Central Africa - IV; The Runaway Steamer; The Land of the Vendetta; Queer Fixes - a battle with wolves, and the plot that failed; Through the United States on Bicycles - III; The Sailor Cowboys; Wide World Picture Tours III - Australia and New Zealand; The Secret of the Farm; A "Floating Gold-Mine"; A Brush with Cannibals; The Haunted Stable; Queer Fixes - The River-Driver, and The Downfall of "Red Mike"; Across Unknown Bhutan - I; The Disappearance of Bryant Crandall; In the Andamans and Nicobars; The Gliding Death - In the coils of a boa-constrictor, touch and go, and an hour with a rattler; Watchers of the Lights; What happened at the Bungalow; Wide World Picture Tours IV - British Africa; Darkness and Light; Our Trip Down the Zambezi; Through the United States on Bicycles - IV; At Sea with a Menagerie; The Poachers Vengeance; A Beetle Hunter in the Amazon; Across Unknown Bhutan - II; A Tragedy of Solitude; Kangaroo Farming; From India to England Overland - I; The Boy Who Ran Away; With a Survey Party in the Field; On Board the "Luciline"; A Maori "Canoe Poi"; The Lost Explorers; A High Climb in Himalaya; The Eye of the King; Our Cruise on the Friesland Meers; An Alligator Hunt By Night; Our Bunch of Bananas and What They Cost Us; The "Knill Festival" at St. Ives; The Passing of a Pathan; The Romance of Mining - The Coyote Mine, Forty Feet From Fortune, The Vanished Vein; The Hunted Hunter; A Cinder in the Sea; Selling the Empire's Secrets; An Eastern Theatre; Six Thousand Miles on Horseback - I; Fighting a Burning Gas-Well; An Exciting Weekend; The Lalla Khan Hoax; From India to England Overland - II; Raiding on the Cumberland; How Pearson Saved the "Overland"; Sport and Adventure in Central Africa - I; Nine Days Entombed; From India to England Overland - III; Tinker - The Story of a Dog; As the Sign of the "Cup-and-ball"; Six Thousand Miles on Horseback - II; The "Killers of Twofold Bay; Captured by Dyaks; Some of My Experiences; My Man Jose; Witch-Doctors and Their Ways; The Mystery of the Magazine; Across America by Motor-Cycle; An Unexpected Visitor; A Village of Smiths; A New Year Parade; Lost in a Mine; A Paradise of Birds; The Man-Eater of Lalpur-Arani; Fighting Snow in the Rockies; Alone in the Wimmera; Log-Rolling; The "White Avengers" - II; My Last Climb; A Lonely Trans-African Tramp - I; "Bully" Hayes's Supercargo; "The Emperor of the Sahara; The First Ascent of Chogo Loongma; Cast Away in the Arctic; A Deal in Eggs. Modest lean to spine. Average wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Book
96 pages pages plus 32 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Gold-Seekers - Edward J. Hoyt and William Palmer experience terrible Central American hardships in pursuit of wealth; Anso the Inaccessible - photo-illustrated article on this quaint Pyrenees town in Spain; Against Odds - in 1896 the natives of Matebeleland rose against their masters and massacred nearly four hundred - two survivors tell their tale; Across the Andes on Foot - amazing photo-illustrated article; Adventures of an Outlaw-Hunter - exciting experiences related by Sergeant Frank W. Northern who waged a relentless war against criminals in San Diego; A Tale of a Tiger - an extraordinary affair in Rangoon, Burma - with great photos, including the Shway Dagon Pagoda; The Wanderings of an Entertainer (part III) - Mr. Robert Ganthony relates his eventful tour in Canada; Curiosities of the Holy Land (part II) - the picturesque habits of peasant life in Palestine are described, accompanied by photos; The Missing Boatswain - how this strange mystery was solved; My Durian - a traveller in Singapore has his first experience with this awful smelling fruit; The "Hodag" - photo-illustrated account of an elaborate hoax involving Mr. E.S. Shepard in Rhinelander, Wisconsin that, after thirty years, is still remembered throughout the state; "The Woman Who Never Came Back" - a description of the tricks of No-ha-de-lan, an astute old Alaskan witch-doctress, with photos; and more. Covers detached as one but present. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
84 pages. Features: Niagara Falls "Maid of the Mist" cover photo; Slum Clearance is a Hoax; Robert Kennedy and the Liberals; Out to Launch; See America First; The Killer That Stalks the Newborn - deadly respiratory disease kills 25,000 per year; My Twelve Years With Kennedy - The Presidential Years - by his personal Secretary, Evelyn Lincoln; Actress Jean Simmons - The Mouse Becomes a Cat - color photos with article; Will Snick Overcome? - photo-illustrated article on the wildest of civil-rights groups which teaches its poorest Negroes to challenge whites. Fiction: Peace; The Gaudiest Thing on Wheels. Ads: Lucky Strike ad inside front cover features photo of man with bite out of his hat; Bell Telephone ad features photos of Carol Ann Pagano of New York City; General Electric Appliances; Nice two-page Volkswagen ad shows race car trailing a Beetle; Dial Soap; Rexall Sweepstakes; Nice color ad for the 1965 Ford Pickups with Twin I Beam independent suspension; Masterpiece cigarettes; Phillies Cheroots Cigars; Color-photo centerfold ad for Firestone features Indianapolis 500 photo; Flying A Service; National LP-Gas; Interesting one-page ad encouraging motorists to use seatbelts (before shoulder straps came into use); Tab soda - very nice one-page color photo ad inside back cover shows mom on beach with young son; Viceroy cigarette ad on back cover is color photo of an evening weenie roast on the beach. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
8vo., First Edition, with plates, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; maroon cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With the separately printed errata slip mounted facing text. Bright, crisp copy of the original edition of the investigation into Piltdown Man - arguably the greatest archaeological hoax in Britain of the twentieth century. Working with the author, Le Gros Clark and Kenneth Oakley were the trio responsible for detecting and finally exposing the fraud in 1953. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
214 pages including bibliography. Our economic future is dictated by the Federal Reserve. Jacque Rueff was aware of this fact when he alerted the West to the Fed's plot to control the free world's economy. So repugnant was this knowledge that it precipitated an economic war between our Fed and the world's central banks. To avoid a crisis - nationalization - the Fed and its Complex engaged America in a horrendous hoax: a war of containment (Vietnam), a war on poverty (the Great Society) and a war on gold (the London gold pool). Today's recession is the first stage of another misdirection conspiracy that will again attempt to make it possible for an international complex to wrest control of America's economy. Ridiculous, you say? Then read the proof! Publisher's stamp inside front cover. Library stamps upon each edge of textblock else unmarked. Binding sound. Moderate to average wear. Good working copy. Book
32 pages. Features: Fascinating news bits inside front cover; Merry Richmond, Virginia - Rich in Romance/The Rare Old Traditions are still Undimmed; Letting in the Alien (Immigration) Flood - Why? - Relatives have relatives and the Perlman Bill would admit them all; Two Dozen Ways to Keep Sane - ways of thinking and living cause mental breakdowns; Woodrow Wilson - Taker of Chances (part 4); The Drama of Our Youth - village theatricals when father and mother were characters in the play; Mr. (Henry) Ford's Page - he talks about the mirage of the 'saturation point' of a service; Editorials - foreigners involved in crime, prohibition, controversial reporting about Russia, the Mexican/US border, Mr. Trotsky (Braunstein) takes another fling at the U.S., Winston Churchill and the cancellation of war debt; Literary Fakers and Their Fakes - Wherein the delightful 'Spectra' Hoax is told and the Eulogists of Modern and Ultra-Modern Verse are engulfed in sorrow; A Dinosaur Breaks into History - if man drew a pictograph from life, it upsets many theories; What to do to make life worthwhile - many people consider that a college education and 'success' are synonymous, but here are some people who are of the opposite opinion; Paul Revere tells his own story - family archives furnish new light on Patriot's Famous Ride into Lexington; Chats with Office Callers;There is nothing new under the sea - how Robert Fulton Demonstrated Submarines Over a Hundred Years Ago; When Cliff House Went Really Dry - the once famous San Francisco Resort Sees Changed Days; How to Steal Apples - loopholes of law which enable fruit marauders to defy mantraps, spring guns and the farmer's bulldog; Co-operation Saves Workers From Death - employees of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company at Los Angeles fight Tuberculosis, the Great White Plague, at the Lone Wolf Colony; How the Indians Made Sugar; Beating the Grain of Mustard Seed - nurseryman George Klehm can grow a 35' elm tree in six years; A Dance a Week - The Lancers ("Oriental) with first violin sheet music (continued); Back cover quote from Benjamin Harrison about national expansion. Average wear. Unmarked. Middle page loose but present. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
504p. Inked ownership of Harry E. Seyler. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, faded. Hardbound. Third printing. Nice copy. Harry E. Seyler, York County, PA Democrat, was a Member of Pennsylvania State Senate. SPACE/1
Features: Cordell Bank - an underwater island; Preserving a common heritage - Treatment of marine artifacts; Tiger of the sea whips; Queen conch at the crossroads; Bermuda mystery waves; Garadiavolo - the devil monster hoax; Save the babies - Strategies of marine animals; there was a Moby Dick; The fuzzy sea butterfly. Sound copy. Book
Paris, Alsatia 1961. In-8 broché de 261 pages. Très bon état
Features: They called him Coyote - Scott Andrew Smith; Goodhearted and unlucky - Long George Francis; Stump-Jumper on the Fairbanks-Valdez Trail; Blue Riches Halfway to the Sky; Foster Child of the Kiowas - Millie Dergan; Why Badmen were Bad; Gay times in Gibbonsville, Idaho; Climb the Blackjack! - Longhorn Cattle; Climax Jim - Rustler Rufus Nephews, alias Jim Thomas; Noah H. Rose - frontier cameraman; Steamboat on Puget Sound - the Beaver; Oakes Rhymes with Hoax - D.C. Oakes and Pikes Peak gold; Last days of the great northern herd; 'an eye for an eye' was not enough - William Clark Quantrill and his band; Gunfighting tricks of the trade; complete reprint of scarce book - Rube Burrow, King of Outlaws and his Band of Train Robbers by G.W. Agee; and more. Clean and bright with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
110 pages. Features: Prudential ad inside front cover features fantastic one-page illustration of Lionel Conacher being carried by his Toronto Argonaut teammates after they beat the Edmonton Eskimos to win the Grey Cup in 1921; Four Canadians plan a trip to mountain climb in the Himalayas - Sev Heiberg et al; Editorial discusses propaganda vis-a-vis the Berlin Crisis; Nuclear Researcher Louis Slotin - A Tiny Slip, A Terrible Death; Falconry in the Suburbs - Frank Beebe of Vancouver Island; It's Harder to Be Anybody - novella by Mordechai Richler; For ten days Eva Szulner was den mother to 24 child geniuses from Oak Park Junior High School in East York; Judson Lowther kills his wife Alice and the hired man, Brandon Isaacs, he found her with near Cremona, Alberta; Prime Minister R.B. Bennett was almost as an important event in Canadian history as the Great Depression itself; Japan's Tragic Solution to the Population Crisis - two milliion abortions per year; How Seven Families Really Got Away From it All - a handful of Americans, mostly Quakers, raise their families in Argenta in the Lardeau Valley of B.C.'s West Kootenays; The License to Defraud in Charity's Name - the 6,800 tax-exempt corporations in Canada are scantily investigated; Colour-photo B.O.A.C. one-page ad shows Bhikku (priest) near the Emerald Buddha Temple in Bangkok; Photos of the dust-blow 1930s; One-page black and white photo ad for Trans-Canada Airlines features cute young girl Karen; Howard Green - Vancouver Lawyer and parliamentary veteran; and more. Please note: missing pages 9-12 and 67-70, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A worthy reference copy. Book
96 pages. Features: Cover art by Fenwick Lansdowne; Nice colour ad for GWG inside front cover features casual fashions for ladies; Tim Buck's Future; The Bankruptcy of George H. Ridout's Ontario real estate empire; Will Maggie Muggins be Canada's next movie star?; Bruce Hutchison argues 'We're Being Corrupted By Our Boom'; One-page photo ad for Crown Zellerbach Canada features Forester Ken Mulholland; Diary of Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke pictures Churchill as a happy genius without judgement; One-page Chevrolet ad features pink 1957 Chevy coupe with white roof; Is B.C.'s fanfare for Wenner-Gren another false alarm? - he has an Olympian plan to develop the B.C. Trench - photo-illustrated article; Siobhan McKenna and the Statford Festival - photo-illustrated article; Fenwick Lansdowne and his Unbelievable Bird Paintings; How the Russians are trained to hate the west - interesting photo-illustrated cold war-era article explains that the Russian people are not fooled by their state propaganda; The Wonderland of Louis B. Mayer (conclusion) - fantastic photo-illustrated article explains how the thirties were a bonanza for this Canadian star-maker who made Garbo talk, discovered Judy Garland and hit the jackpot with 'Gone With the Wind'; Was Our Biggest Historical Find Our Biggest Hoax? - awful suspicion that Viking relics 'found' in Northern Ontario and proudly displayed in our largest museum are probably fake - fascinating photo-illustrated article about relics 'found' by James Dodd and Fletcher Gill in 1930 on a Beardsmore, Ontario mining claim; Why the (Toronto Maple Leafs) Kid Line became a legend - sensational photo-illustrated article - part IV of the story of the Conachers; Will the nickel book make a new man of Manitoba? - Trapper Walter Johnson staked the Moak Lake area then sold his secret for a fortune - photo-illustrated article; Fantastic one-page colour Meteor car ad features yellow and black car with white roof, plus endorsement by Ed Sullivan, whose photo appears in lower left corner; Sensational colour two-page Meteor car ad includes illustrations of sixteen cars!; Black Label Beer ad features 'Mabel'; When Louis Mayer sang to Jeanneatte Macdonald; Nice one-page colour ad for 1957 Chrysler cars features a red Windsor 2-door hardtop (with white roof); How Pal became Lassie and how Elizabeth Taylor started on a fast climb to stardom; Colour ad for Jello-O orange instant pudding; Colour centrefold ad for Simmons mattresses; McCulloch chainsaw ad features the Model 39; Pilkington Glass ad features colour photo of the living room of the J.L. Silverman home in Halifax, Nova Scotia; Wonderful one-page colour ad for the 1957 Monarch Turnpike Cruiser car features their new dual-curve windshield; Nice colour ad for Dow ale; Max (Rawhide) Ferguson describes his most memorable meal; Baby photo of footballer Normie Kwong; Nice one-page colour-photo Oldsmobile ad features white car in front of fashionable city location; Colour ad for Molson Golden Ale; 1957 Dodge ad inside back cover features yellow car with white trim and roof; Coke ad on back cover features Hawaiian get-together; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Contents: Pittston battles for New Brunswick refinery in Eastport; Explosive student woes in France; Can we trust our spies?, by Barbara Amiel; Joe Clark searching for second ballot support; Robert Kaplan under attack for his new CSIS; Dave Barrett bows out leaving no heir; Militant Nova Scotia lobster fishermen; The trial of Gilles Gregoire; Inside Canada's Prisons - cover story with photos; Texas Instruments PC ad; British national election campaign; Scandal in Somalia; Congress approves the MX missile; Deadly new phase of warfare in South Africa; Canadian shipyards fighting to survive on government contracts; On the Nissan Assembly Line in Japan, by Peter C. Newman; NHL faces anti-trust challenge after refusing to allow the sale of the St. Louis Blues to a Saskatoon group - Bill Hunter; Commodore 64 computer ad; Into the tomb of HMS Breadalbane - interesting underwater photos; Bruce Allen - the most successful manager in the history of Canadian rock; Fotheringham on the Hitler diaries hoax. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
56 pages. Features: Colour cover illustration of young couple and their noisy puppy by John Newton Taylor; Nice colour Palmolive ad inside front cover; Chevrolet Six ad; Nice ad for Magic Baking Powder; Men Don't Do Such Things - story by Addison Simmons; No Sense of Humor - story by Louis Arthur Cunningham; Senator Arthur Meighen - article by R.T.L.; The *Real* War-Debt Hoax, by Lieut.-Colonel George A. Drew who reflects on how the world watches anxiously while the Government of the United States remains in a state of suspended animation imposed by a constitution that it has long outgrown; The Ishmaelite - story by Leslie Roberts; Yes! I'm a Wrestling Fan, by Edgar March; What I Hope to Do with Radio, by Hector Charlesworth, Chairman of the Canadian Radio Commission; Water Under The Bridge - story by Martha Banning Thomas; Shacked! - Nationality laws lead to hardship and heartache as some people are refused permission to cross borders and join their families; Death at the Bath - story by Benge Atlee; Avalanche - story by Robert E. Pinkerton; The Waning Herds - Norbert Welsh on the decline of the buffalo; Lovely colour Campbell's Soup ad with illustration by Jessie Willcox Smith; Photo ad for Ponds creams featuring Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt; Vintage full-page black and white Maxwell House Coffee featuring Dixie; Full-page colour ad for Chiipso laundry soap; Full-age black and white photo ad for Walter P. Chrysler's new Plymouth Six; Uncommon black and white partial-page ad for Spud cigarettes; Fireside Accessories, by F.L. deN. Scott; Very stylish two-colour illustrated ad for 1933 Oldsmobile cars inside back cover; Wow! - Lovely colour photo ad on back cover for Kodak's new $39.50 Cine-Kodak movie camera!; Address label atop front cover. Faint erasure to front cover. Moderate wear. Small chip from bottom of back cover. A sound copy of this lovely vintage issue. Book
Features: Vintage Colour Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100 ad; One-page black and white Krugerrand ad; Watershed week in Federal Tory Leadership Campaign; Bill Bennett and his Social Credit Party defeat Dave Barrett and the NDP in BC - colour photos; Jean-Luc Pepn concedes on the Crow rate; Scrutinizing Air Canada's decision to move its HQ to Montreal; Andropov hints at compromise; The Hitler Diaries Hoax; Israel decides to withdraw from Lebanon; Clampdown on CIA covert action - the Boland amendment; The Edmonton Oilers go for the Stanley Cup - feature article with colour photos; High Tech job threat - will it eliminate many of our jobs?; Photo of Toyota Chairman with GM counterpart Roger Smith; Douglas Fraser of the UAW re-elected to Chrysler board; TD Bank bringing discount brokerage to Canada - clash of the Bay Street titans; Race horse Sunny Halo - brief article; War beneath the waves - submarine detection - Aurora, DDH-280 class destroyer, sonobuoys; Morgantaler and abortion move west to Winnipeg; Vintage Mattel Intellivision colour photo ad. Average wear. Book
100 pages. Features: Cover illustration of St. Joseph's Convent on Toronto's Bay Street, with nuns raking fall leaves; The dream of Rt. Hon. L.S. Amery - his son Julian became an M.P. but son John was hanged for wartime pro-Nazi broadcasts; Nice two-page colour-photo ad for General Motors trucks presents a blue pickup and a red 2-ton stake truck; Vintage one-page photo ad for the Toro "Power Handle which allowed one motor to power numerous yard care attachments; What Virtue Has Done to Montreal - excellent photo-illustrated article discusses how the girls are being chased out of town and the bars being forced to close on time - with photos of Frank Pretula, Louis Greco, Pierre DesMarais, Jean Drapeau, Pax Plante, Armand Courval, and members of the morality squad; The Miracle that began in a Stable - Dr. J.G. Fitzgerald and the history of his Connaught Laboratories which makes vaccines - photo-illustrated article; How to Handle Women; Photo-illustrated article on the unlikeliest couple in show business - George Murray and Shirley Harmer; Will a Machine Ever Take Your Job? - Article on what automation will mean to Canada; The Great Chinese Food Hoax - colour-photo-illustrated article on how Canada's Cantonese cooks are now being recognized for their delicious Chinese dishes, rather than the Canadian food they had been preparing in their cafes; The Great Carlak's Bitter Magic (short story); Life on the Gulf Islands - great photo-illustrated article on the 4,000 Canadians enjoying the dream of living on an island in the Pacific - with photos of Margaret Robinson, George Copeland, Bob Holloman, Derril Georgeson, Winnie Lautmann, Norm Preston, and Mr. and Mrs. A. King; Who Was the Mad Trapper of Rat River? - Illustrated article on Albert Johnson who shot others before being killed by a posse; How I Made my Killing in the Market - all you need is a few bucks and some 'inside dope'; One-page National Cash Register (NCR) colour ad features lovely redhead; Color ad features the Sheraton-Carlton Hotel, Washington, D.C.; Haig & Haig whisky ad features nice colour photo of Eilean Donan Castle; Sisman Tredders shoe ad features photo and endorsement by Lloyd Percival; Nice one-page colour Sylvania TV ad; Half-page Homelite ad shows large tree being brought down; Unusual one-page colour ad for Canada Savings Bonds (CSB) illustrates how to read a tea cup; Quarter-page Moosehead Pale Ale ad features illustration of moose looking at portaging canoeist; Great one-page illustrated Dunlop Tires ad features photo of hero Mr. Martin Binkle of Kitchener, a driver for the Cope Transport Company who rescued children from a blazing farmhouse on highway 6 near Rockton; Labatt's IPA ale ad features photo of Wexford, Ontario labourer Frederick Gilbert; Nice one-page two-colour ad for 1955 GMC trucks hilights their all-new V8 engines; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
in-8 broche de 216-xviii pages. Bon etat (defauts et petits manques a la couverture). [CA-8]
Londres, 1784. 2 volumes In-8 brochés, couverture bleue d'attente, 277 + 206 pages. Bords des pages un peu effrangés, couvertures d'attente un peu défraichies, corps de l'ouvrage en bon état. Cet excellent et rare ouvrage, ici en édition originale, mériterait d'étre relié. Dialogues imaginaires et caustiques sur l'état du Royaume de France entre plusieurs grands personnages décédés. Bon exemplaire.
in-8°, 205 pages, broche, couverture vert et blanc. Tres bel exemplaire. [DV-5]
Julliard 1990, In-8 broché, 294 pages. Trés bon état.
in-8°, 158 pages, broche, couv.— RARE ET RECHERCHE. Bel exemplaire. [MI-11]
364 pages. 6 1/4"w x 8 7/8"h by 1 1/4"thick. Decorative cover with gilt and blue design and beveled edges is slightly soiled. Gilt top page ends. Decorative borders on every page. Previous owner's inscription and bookplate. Volume I only. Illustrated by Edward W. Kemble. "Washington Irving, an author, biographer, historian, and diplomat, completed his first major work, a satire of contemporary local history and politics entitled A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, by Diedrich Knickerbocker in 1809. Prior to its publication, Irving started a promotional hoax (not unlike some modern-day publicity stunts?) by placing fake missing persons advertisements in local newspapers asking for help in locating Diedrich Knickerbocker. As a continuation of the hoax, Irving also published a notice purported to be written by the proprietor of the hotel where Knickbocker was staying, in which he threatened to publish a manuscript 'left behind' by Knickerbocker if the hotel bill was not paid. From 'The Author?s Apology': The main object of my work, in fact, had a bearing wide from the sober aim of history, but one which, I trust, will meet with some indulgence from poetic minds. It was to embody the traditions of our city in an amusing form; to illustrate its local humors, customs and peculiarities; to clothe home scenes and places and familiar names with those imaginative and whimsical associations so seldom met with in our new country, but which live like charms and spells about the cities of the old world, binding the heart of the native inhabitant to his home." (Summary by lubee930 from the text and adapted from Wikipedia)